About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

April 1......

April 1 is the 91st (92nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Apathy "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." — Albert Einstein

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Hate & Intolerance "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." — Ann Coulter, on the man who detonated the bomb outside the Oklahoma City federal office building, killing 168 people

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1572 - in the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

● 1578 - William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation

● 1581 - Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II

● 1621 - The Plymouth, MA, colonists created the first treaty with Native Americans.

● 1649 - England - Diggers occupy St. Georges Hill, near Cobham, Surrey, seizing land to hold in common and to plant; other communities follow in Northants, Bucks, Kent, Herts, Middx, Leics, Beds, Glos, and Notts.

● 1663 - Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)

● 1693 - Colonial clergyman Cotton Mather's first-born son died at the age of four days. Mather suspected witchcraft as the cause, and had previously published "Wonders of the Invisible World," affirming his belief in spectral phenomena.

● 1789 - In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

● 1792 - Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce

● 1793 - Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000

● 1803 - French law rules the use of intention

● 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

● 1836 - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands

● 1841 - Brook Farm, history's most famous utopian community, is founded near West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Its primary appeal was to young Bostonians who shrink from the materialism of American life, and the community was a refuge for dozens of transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathanial Hawthorne.

● 1918 - Soviet secret police raids anarchist centers in Moscow. Approximately 40 anarchists are killed or wounded, more than 500 taken prisoner.

● 1918 - England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force

● 1920 - Five members of New York state legislature expelled as Socialists.

● 1920 - Church disestablished in Wales

● 1924 - Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co

● 1924 - Imperial Airways is formed in Britain

● 1924 - Adolf Hitler imprisoned for involvement in the Beer-Hall Putsch, begins dictating Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess. Its original, somewhat less catchy title - Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice - Settling Accounts with the Destroyers of the National Socialist Movement.

● 1924 - One of West Virginia's most unusual strikes begins; union miners walk out at the Coal River Collieries. CSC was an investment venture of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The United Mine Workers of America, called the miners out of CRC mines because the union-owned company refused to pay the current union wage scale.

● 1929 - Morehouse College, Spelman College & Atlanta University affiliate to form Atlanta University Center

● 1929 - Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls

● 1929 - Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens

● 1929 - Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo

● 1931 - Earthquake devastates Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000

● 1932 - Five hundred school children, most with haggard faces and in tattered clothes, parade through Chicago's downtown section to the Board of Education offices to demand that the school system provide them with food.

● 1932 - German scholar Gerhard Kittel published the first partial volume of "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." With WWII and Kittel's death in 1948 intervening, this monumental 10-volume work was not completed until the late 1960s.

● 1933 - Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany

● 1933 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.

● 1939 - Franco declares the Spanish civil war at an end. U.S. recognizes fascist Franco's government in Spain. Franco went on to systematically slaughter some 200,000 of his opponents in a carnage of genocidal proportions that was meant to physically uproot the living source of the revolution.

● 1941 - The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted.

● 1941 - Navy takes over Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay)

● 1941 - Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafés

● 1941 - Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq

● 1942 - México changes from 3 time zones to 2

● 1942 - Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor

● 1944 - German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed

● 1944 - Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India

● 1944 - Accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. The bombers were lost.

● 1945 - World War II: Operation Iceberg - United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.

● 1945 - Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army

● 1946 - Strike by 400,000 mine workers. Truman ultimately suppressed this strike wave (1945-46) by calling out the military ("workers in uniform") not only to restore social order but also to run key sectors of the economy until the more rebellious elements of this strike wave could be rebridled. The coal miner strike was ended when the U.S. government used the army to seize the mines to continue production. In part to prevent future such debacles for the bottom line, the union-busting Taft-Hartley Act was passed into law two years later.

● 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

● 1954 - "Great Cheese Scandal." Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, disregarding the fact that Wisconsin cheese distributors had contracted to sell the government 90 million pounds of cheese at 37 cents per pound, drops the price support level on dairy products from 90 to 75 percent parity. The cheese distributors promptly repurchased the title to their product at 34 cents per pound, realizing a $2.2 million profit on cheese that never left their warehouse.

● 1955 - Boycott of segregated schools begins, South Africa.

● 1955 - The EOKA rebellion starts in Cyprus, aiming at the island's independence from the United Kingdom.

● 1955 - Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

● 1956 - Death of William R. Newell, 88, American Congregational pastor and Bible teacher. He is remembered today as author of the hymn, "At Calvary" ("Years I Spent in Vanity and Pride").

● 1956 - Violent clashes in Algeria, at least 380 killed

● 1957 - BBC fools the nation; The BBC receives a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.

● 1967 - The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.

● 1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.

● 1969 - Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp

● 1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon general's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971. ● 1970 - The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai massacre.

● 1971 - United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership

● 1971 - US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere

● 1972 - North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their offensive in South Vietnam.

● 1983 - Human chain links nuclear sites; Tens of thousands of peace demonstrators have formed a human chain stretching 14 miles (22.5 kilometres) across a southern English county.

● 1984 - Marvin Gaye, 44, is killed by a gunshot wound in Los Angeles in an argument with his father. Gaye's father received probation after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

● 1985 - Environmental Protection Agency orders end to dumping of sludge off the New Jersey coast.

● 1986 - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors votes to lobby the US Congress to rename the Angeles National Forest the "Reagan National Forest." Says Sierra Club spokesman Bob Hattoy, "Naming a national forest after Ronnie Reagan is like naming a day care center after W C Fields."

● 1986 - US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in the Irish Sea

● 1986 - World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel

● 1987 - Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.

● 1996 - Baseball umpire John McSherry died after collapsing during a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.

● 1996 - The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia was created .

● 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)

● 1998 - A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying that the claims fell "far short" of being worthy of a trial.

● 1999 - Britain gets first minimum wage; A legally-binding minimum rate of pay has been introduced in Britain for the first time.

● 1999 - A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide and caused more than $80 million in damage. (David Smith served just 20 months in federal prison in exchange for helping the FBI track down the authors of other computer viruses.)

● 1999 - In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children. 43 of the killings occurred in a 6-month period.

● 1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

● 2000 - Wartime coding machine stolen; The Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages in the Second World War, is stolen from Bletchley Park.

● 2001 - China began holding 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E U.S. Navy crew had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead. The U.S. crew was released on April 11, 2001.

● 2001 - Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.

● 2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only nation in the world to do so.

● 2003 - American troops rescued Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, where she had been held prisoner since her unit was ambushed nine days earlier.

● 2003 - North Korea test-fired an anti-ship missile off its west coast.

● 2003 - Jason Mewes was ordered to complete drug rehabilitation or face five years in jail stemming from a drug conviction in 1999.

● 2004 - George W. Bush signs the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes an attack that leads to the death of a mother and her unborn child two criminal charges.

● 2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Abundius● St. Agia● St. Allerius● St. Alphege● St. Anicetus● St. Antipas● St. Apollonius● St. Apollonius the Apologist● St. Ardalion● St. Barsanuphius● St. Benedict Joseph Labré● St. Beocca● St. Bernadette● St. Bernadette Soubirous● Sts. Caidoc & Fricor● St. Cellach● Sts. Callistus & Charisius● St. Calocerus● St. Caradoc● St. Carpus● St. Cogitosus● St. Contardo● St. Corebus● St. Crescentius● St. Damian● St. Dodolinus● St. Domnio● St. Domnina● St. Donan● St. Drogo● Sts. Eleutherius & Anthia● St. Elias● St. Encratia● St. Erkemboden● St. Eutychius● Sts. Fortunatus & Marcian● St. Fulbert● St. Galdinus● St. Gebuinus● St. Gemma Galgani● St. Gerold● St. Godebertha● St. Gunioc● St. Hermengild● St. Hermogenes● St. Herve● St. Hugh of Grenoble● St. Hunna● St. Jacoba● St. James Duckett, Blessed● St. Julius● St. Lambert of Lyon● St. Lambert of Saragossa● St. Landericus● St. Laserian● St. Lydwine● St. Macarius the Ghent● St. Macarius the Wonder-Worker● St. Machai● St. Maedhog● St. Malchus● St. Mappalicus● St. Maro● St. Martin I, Pope● St. Martius● St. Mary Margaret d'Youville● St. Maximus● Sts. Maximus & Olympiades● St. Melitina● St. Michael of the Saints● St. Mundus● St. Palladius● St. Paphnutius● St. Paternus● St. Pavoni, Anthony● St. Perfectus● Sts. Peter and Hermogenes● St. Peter Gonzalez● St. Philip of Gortyna● Sts. Quintian and Irenaeus● St. Robert of Chaise Dieu● St. Ruadan● St. Sabas● St. Stanislaus● St. Tassach● St. Terence● St. Tetricus● St. Theodora● St. Thomais● St. Tiburtius● St. Timon● St. Turibius of Astorga● St. Turibius of Palencia● St. Ursmar● St. Vasius● St. Venantius● St. Victor● Sts. Victor and Stephen● St. Villicus● St. Vincent of Collioure● St. Vissia● St. Walericus● St. Wicterp● St. Wigbert● St. Zeno● Bl. Anthony Neyrot● Bl. Edward Catheriek● Bl. John Lockwood● Bl. Wando

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 19 (Civil Date: April 1)● Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them at Rome: Claudius, Hilaria, Jason, Maurus, Diodorus presbyter, and Marianus deacon.● Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia.● St. Innocent of Komel (Vologda), disciple of St. Nilus of Sora.● St. Bassa, nun of Pskov.● New-Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople.

● Christian:● St. Lasarus, patron of girls

● Anglican:● Frederick Denison Maurice, priest

● Last day of the Assyrian New Year Celebration

● Roman Empire - Veneralia celebrated to honor Venus.

● April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.

● Japan - The official start of school years in most universities and schools. Also, the official first day of work at companies and offices for new university graduates hires, marked by welcoming ceremonies and speeches.

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